On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Sparrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just some more concrete suggestions to simplify the v2 UI. As it stands I > think the work bench is far too cluttered - lets go for something more Google > Chrome, MS Office, Apple iOS etc. Specifically: > > Left hand tree of repositories - can this be moved into a dialog box (does it > really need to be visible all the time, by default?)
The repository registry is a dock widget. If the user wants it detached, they can drag it off. It could perhaps default to being hidden on a clean install just like the log dock widget, but it will be made visible anyway if the workbench was started from the start menu or any other shortcut outside of any repository. Should it default to being detached? > Ditto 'Filter bar' and others - just have a button and hot-key. We don't need > them eating up screen space all the time. When they've been used, hide them > again! Agreed. > Tab buttons in the bottom right - can these be moved into the button bar? > They only make sense (to me) if they are per-revision, and some certainly > aren't (like the sync tab). Even were they do make sense, I'd prefer all the > buttons to be in one place (at the top) unless there is a compelling reason > otherwise. They could. In fact, there's already menu actions for them in the view menu. So it would be just a matter of adding those actions to a new QToolBar, adding that to the workbench toolbar, then hiding the tabs in the repowidget. Heck, the tabs could even be made optional. > Can't we just have 3 basic sections: > > - Buttons / Menus at the top > - Listview of changesets, graph etc > - Files (and diff) for currently selected changeset This is doable. Any volunteers to take a crack at these? -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
